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Speaker 1: is a victory Monday here on Talking Cowboys from a
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. The Cowboys dethrone the Super Bowl Champs
Speaker 1: twenty two to tend the final score. As we welcome
Speaker 1: you in presented by a Black Rifle Coffee Company to
Speaker 1: the fourth Victory Monday of the twenty twenty two campaign.
Speaker 1: Glad you're with us here on Talking Cowboys. Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Backpatrick Nose Walker, We've got Chris Beam in
Speaker 1: the backup. Kyle Yeoman's glad you're with us, And gentlemen,
Speaker 1: this one feels a little bit sweeter because everyone is sweeter.
Speaker 1: I mean, every time it goes, you get one more.
Speaker 1: You continue to stack wins upon wins upon wins. It
Speaker 1: feels much better as you go along. However, this one
Speaker 1: feels good, Isaiah, because it's against the reigning Super Bowl champs,
Speaker 1: and because your defense got the job done. Again. Defense
Speaker 1: is the leaders on this team. These guys, We've talked
Speaker 1: about it in recent weeks. These guys are simply just
Speaker 1: seemingly unstoppable. It's a lot to deal with when you
Speaker 1: have the personnel and you have the wisdom that's kind
Speaker 1: of the director behind everything, kind of you know, controlling
Speaker 1: the pinocchio strings back there, and he's just utilizing all
Speaker 1: his assets. It's it's hard for an offense to come
Speaker 1: back this, and I'm not sure how you come back
Speaker 1: this when you have that amount of pressure. You you
Speaker 1: don't allow them to establish running games. You don't allow
Speaker 1: them to sit back and throw the ball. So it's like,
Speaker 1: what do you do offensively against this defense to get
Speaker 1: anything going? And as long as the Dallas Cowboys continue
Speaker 1: to play this type of defense, it doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: much their offense shows up or doesn't show up. You know,
Speaker 1: field goals seemingly will win you the ball game. Go ahead, listen.
Speaker 1: If this defense continues playing like this, UH Congress is
Speaker 1: going to have to convene a special session to investigate
Speaker 1: what's going on. I mean, at the end of the
Speaker 1: day and at the beginning of the day and in
Speaker 1: the middle of the day. This defense is absolutely terrorizing teams.
Speaker 1: And we said going into this game, obviously we're still
Speaker 1: about one Now, we're about one week now from you know,
Speaker 1: the nickname votes, right, But I said before I dropped mine,
Speaker 1: before we dropped hours, I wanted to see what they
Speaker 1: did against the Rams, and then I want to see
Speaker 1: what they do against the Eagles. Another big test coming
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. We'll get to that later this week.
Speaker 1: But to go into Sofa against the rain of Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champs and hold them to only ten points. Now,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, he had one twenty five, but seventy five
Speaker 1: of that came on on one play. And it's funny
Speaker 1: because two, not two plays before he broke that run,
Speaker 1: I said to myself that, hey, they have a cap
Speaker 1: on Cooper Cup. I was like, hey, I might be
Speaker 1: jinxing it, so I'm not gonna say it out loud.
Speaker 1: And if I had said it out loud, I would
Speaker 1: have thought I jinxed it. But I didn't. Goodness, I
Speaker 1: didn't say that out hadn't happened anyway, right, But that's
Speaker 1: seventy that's all your fault. It's basically what I'm gatherings
Speaker 1: I heard. Yeah that was if that's if that's the
Speaker 1: worst thing that happened yesterday, and it turns out that
Speaker 1: was the worst thing that happened yesterday, I will take
Speaker 1: that all day long. The defense played stout. Um you
Speaker 1: had the at Well, the deep past at Well, which
Speaker 1: couldn't have been deep defended. I mean Diggs was right there,
Speaker 1: perfect coverage. Stafford just dropped that throw. It was unreal.
Speaker 1: So those two things, notwithstanding, Cowboys kept Acres in the
Speaker 1: running game and Check. For the most part, they kept
Speaker 1: they kept Higbee and Check. Welcome back jay Ron curse right. Uh,
Speaker 1: this defense top to bottom. I mean you even got
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons dealing with you know, growing tightness, and he's
Speaker 1: like putting me back in coach, so I can punctuate
Speaker 1: this game with a sack fumbo. Oh man, it's just
Speaker 1: a beautiful sight to see defense. Is they stir the
Speaker 1: bloody drink as when Mike McCarthy's PG that was sorry
Speaker 1: so our UK listeners, Yeah, that's what That's what British
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy would have said. He's right. I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys hit on everything. I mean, I'm I'm stunned by
Speaker 1: like both the predictability of this Cowboys defense Cowboys team
Speaker 1: and their unpredictability they are. Nobody could have predicted four
Speaker 1: straight wins with Cooper Rush is the starting quarterback. I
Speaker 1: don't care how good the defense has played. If you
Speaker 1: told me in May when the schedule came out that
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush was going to be the winning starting quarterback
Speaker 1: against both Super Bowl quarterbacks from last year, nobody would
Speaker 1: have bought it. And I'd love to know what the
Speaker 1: percentage was for ESPN Sports Analytics for percentage to win
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That's this league. This league is
Speaker 1: so unpredictable. But what's predictable about this team is what
Speaker 1: the defense does every single week. So far, for five weeks,
Speaker 1: they have not allowed any of their opponents to reach
Speaker 1: twenty points, the first time that a Dallas defense has
Speaker 1: done that since nineteen seventy two. And that's in a
Speaker 1: different era, by the way. I mean that. You know
Speaker 1: there was no Cooper Cup and Sean McVay style offenses
Speaker 1: to defend back then. Seventy two was the last time
Speaker 1: five or less touchdowns in five games to start the season,
Speaker 1: so one touchdown a game. Offensive lines they faced some
Speaker 1: that have struggled, no doubt, they've been some favorable matchups.
Speaker 1: But I think this defense is for real. I think
Speaker 1: we all do. And if you don't, if you're not
Speaker 1: buying it yet, great news. Sunday Night Football. Best team
Speaker 1: in the league, they're playing based on record. Who has
Speaker 1: a great offensive line, by the way, So we'll find
Speaker 1: out real quick once again with the biggest test of
Speaker 1: the season to date, whether it's for real. And I
Speaker 1: think it is. And that's the thing about this matchup
Speaker 1: and this whole week. We're gonna preview it because I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people are already looking ahead.
Speaker 1: They put this one in the review mirror. Cool, you
Speaker 1: just beat the Super Bowl champs. Great, all right, fun, Well,
Speaker 1: we've got some tests on the horizon and charrival. It's
Speaker 1: a Sunday night football game. It's to this point in
Speaker 1: the season. Find me a more high profile game. There
Speaker 1: hasn't been for everybody in their moms, no way that
Speaker 1: there's a more prime profile game at this point in
Speaker 1: the year than the Cowboys and Eagles coming up on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. But it is something to be said because,
Speaker 1: like you said, even if you would have told me
Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott would have gone four and one through
Speaker 1: the first five weeks of the season prior to the
Speaker 1: season starting, I don't know if I would have believed you.
Speaker 1: I really wouldn't. Because you had the Bengals, you had
Speaker 1: the Rams, you had the Buccaneers. You might have won
Speaker 1: two or three games there maybe for possibly, but not
Speaker 1: in the way that they have done it and the
Speaker 1: way that this defense continues to play. I think you
Speaker 1: outline that really well, the predictable unpredictability, because you know
Speaker 1: the defense is going to show up, but are they
Speaker 1: gonna do it in the same way week to week?
Speaker 1: Now dan Quinn switches things up and he did it
Speaker 1: all day yesterday to keep LA off balance, and they
Speaker 1: got after Matthew Stafford because of it. And it goes
Speaker 1: back to what we were saying last week. And I
Speaker 1: cannot see and I know it's possible. Of course, it's possible.
Speaker 1: It's it's football. It's to indefinitely possible. Of course, it's possible.
Speaker 1: This defense is going to have a bad day. Of
Speaker 1: course it's possible. Right, of course, it's possible. Another offense
Speaker 1: is going to you know figure out a way to
Speaker 1: tee off on a particular misspects, of course as possible,
Speaker 1: but expecting it. No, I no longer expect that that's
Speaker 1: going to happen. I expect weekend a week out that
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn and this defense, regardless of what adjustments need
Speaker 1: to be made, whoever is on the field, is going
Speaker 1: to get the job done. And then the only question
Speaker 1: becomes weekly until that gets back and then we see
Speaker 1: prime deck back, because we're not going to see prime
Speaker 1: deck initially might take a game or two. The question
Speaker 1: is is the offense going to be able to avoid
Speaker 1: making the mistakes that cut the defense and the special
Speaker 1: teams off at the knees and they continue to escape
Speaker 1: those mistakes, be it with the lepra con on Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush's shoulder, as Rob Phillips so eloquently put it, or
Speaker 1: whatever other means. The fact is the defense is going
Speaker 1: to continue to win you games as long as you
Speaker 1: You don't even have to match serve. All you gotta
Speaker 1: do is just don't mess it up. If you're the offense,
Speaker 1: just don't screw it up. Twenty sacks through the first
Speaker 1: five games, first time since nineteen eighty seven, since a
Speaker 1: guy you might have heard of him, Tom Landry was
Speaker 1: the coach. It was pretty good. Yeah, so were off
Speaker 1: to a start. And Mickey pointed out to me on
Speaker 1: the plane in the ride home, you might have to
Speaker 1: go further back than that, just because eighty seven was
Speaker 1: the strike year, which was kind of a different year,
Speaker 1: obviously a throwaway type year, so it may go to
Speaker 1: go back further than that. But yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 1: can go down the list of the stats and you're like,
Speaker 1: holy cow, they're right there with San Francisco and Buffalo
Speaker 1: right now. So far as the best defenses in the league,
Speaker 1: I mean, no doubt about it. You've got teams up
Speaker 1: there with one loss. There are four teams with one
Speaker 1: loss or less in the NFC right now. It's the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: the Eagles, the Giants, who you've beaten already, which is
Speaker 1: really interesting, and then the Minnesota Vikings, who you'll see
Speaker 1: later in the year. On the other side, for the AFC,
Speaker 1: there's only one team and that's the Buffalo Bills. So
Speaker 1: you're in the conversation right now at least record wise,
Speaker 1: as a top five team in the NFL. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that's the case. I'm not saying putting expectations on
Speaker 1: it just yet. But that's where you are, factual, that's there.
Speaker 1: Are they showing that they could be that when they're
Speaker 1: fully healthy. Though, did you were you convinced, especially offensively yesterday,
Speaker 1: that they can continue to grow and get better, because
Speaker 1: I felt like the offense kind of took a step
Speaker 1: back last or last night you put in that context,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think about the best teams in the league.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw Buffalo in here right off the back.
Speaker 1: So because Buffalo those defense has proven to you for
Speaker 1: the last few years, much like the Dallas Cowboys defense has,
Speaker 1: that they're real and they're to be they're not to
Speaker 1: be played with. Okay, they're Leslie Fraser is doing an
Speaker 1: amazing job obviously out there as a defensive coordinator. He
Speaker 1: has a lot of really good defensive backs. They're stronger,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just they're strong, you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're they're stronger defense. Offensively, their lights out. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: they're bad days better than Dallas's great days seemingly right now.
Speaker 1: So that is a team that you put them in
Speaker 1: that category. Now. Obviously Dallas has knocked off last year's
Speaker 1: two depending Super Bowl appearing teams. But I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any there's no argument that those teams don't look
Speaker 1: like anything resembling of what they look like. They're two
Speaker 1: and three now, they're not looking They both lost this week.
Speaker 1: So I mean the reality is, I mean, it is
Speaker 1: still you can statman still stands true. You beat Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: you beat the Ramps. Awesome. The team that I would
Speaker 1: say that is showing up like you expecting to show
Speaker 1: up and they're not even being that great right now
Speaker 1: as Tampa. Tampa is still up and down right now. Um,
Speaker 1: but that's the one true test that I guess you
Speaker 1: could say that you've had this year of a solid
Speaker 1: team that's playing like a solid team, and they're still wavering.
Speaker 1: This is the big game coming up, you know, like
Speaker 1: this game last night, we were in the studio watching
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, yeah, you beat the Rams, like there,
Speaker 1: you know, like you expected the defense to do that.
Speaker 1: Their officer line you coming into it. You know, the
Speaker 1: Rams office line was pretty much close to composts as well,
Speaker 1: and they showed it. They showed it right, I mean,
Speaker 1: they pretty much got disrespected yesterday. You pretty much put
Speaker 1: a cap on Cooper Cup. Aside from the one time
Speaker 1: that Trayvon Diggs went back to last year Trayvon and
Speaker 1: started taking risk versus man coverage. He has to just understand, hey,
Speaker 1: understand the coverage, Understand where your help is to be
Speaker 1: able to take calculator risks. But for the most part
Speaker 1: they shut him down. It's an offense though. Like you mentioned, Kyle,
Speaker 1: this offense is not putting out right now. And yesterday
Speaker 1: they only got down to the red zone twice. They
Speaker 1: were over two in the red zone, got down there twice,
Speaker 1: didn't do anything, relied on field goals. They ran the
Speaker 1: ball effectively, right Obviously, some a lot of that came
Speaker 1: from Tony Poller, just like we're saying, Hey, Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: had a good game, but most of it came off
Speaker 1: a one run. Well, Dallas had a good running game,
Speaker 1: but most of it came from Tony Poller on the
Speaker 1: one run as well. So you have to look at
Speaker 1: it objectively and understand that this offense is struggling. And
Speaker 1: what I've been saying for the past few weeks is, hey,
Speaker 1: what happens when your defense just shows up like any
Speaker 1: other defense in the league, because they're entitled to that,
Speaker 1: and they had the game that Patrick's talking about. And
Speaker 1: they have the game that Patrick's talking about. You not
Speaker 1: even a bad game, right, Just just what do they
Speaker 1: just show up in a just a normal, normal defensive
Speaker 1: game and your offense is putting out like this and
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about, oh, you know, when Dad gets back,
Speaker 1: it is gonna be even crazier. We had a healthy
Speaker 1: DAK Week one and the offense didn't do much of nothing.
Speaker 1: So I understand the anticipation to understand what everybody's hoping for,
Speaker 1: But the reality is consistently, whether it's Dak or whether
Speaker 1: it's it's Cooper Rush, this offense has not clicked, not
Speaker 1: one time yet this year. I'll say this to one
Speaker 1: thing that you pointed out, you said, okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they beat the Rams. I'm going to turn the other
Speaker 1: way on this one because going into this game, we
Speaker 1: said definitively this was the biggest test for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: thus far, and Cooper Rush specifically. Now, I would say this,
Speaker 1: as far as individual assessment, Cooper Rush didn't pass that test.
Speaker 1: He didn't fail it because leprocomics show he didn't fail
Speaker 1: the test, but he didn't pass the test either. You
Speaker 1: talk about one hundred and two yards, ten for sixteen passing,
Speaker 1: no interceptions, so he didn't fail, no fumbles, so he
Speaker 1: didn't fail. No touchdowns, so he didn't pass so see right, no, see,
Speaker 1: But the what the offense did was they leaned on
Speaker 1: the running game and the fifty seven yard touchdown from
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard that was a good chunk of that. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, if we're going to give it the
Speaker 1: cup for the seventy five, we're going to give it too.
Speaker 1: But when you look at the twenty two attempts from
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, another eight attempts from pump Tony Poller, that's
Speaker 1: thirty rushing attempts for nearly one hundred and seventy yards
Speaker 1: against Okay, the Rams offensive line was in shambles. Their
Speaker 1: defensive line was not in shambles. Right. I love how
Speaker 1: they adapted and stuck with it because initially they saw
Speaker 1: they couldn't match up against Aaron Donald. Tyler Smith got
Speaker 1: beat badly on two separate occasions, and he didn't fail. That.
Speaker 1: To me, you can't fail going against Aaron Donald. You
Speaker 1: have the pass or it's Aaron Donald. Right. So, but
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys did after that, second sac. You saw
Speaker 1: Donald didn't get another sack the remainder of the game.
Speaker 1: No other defensive lineman for the Rams got a sack
Speaker 1: in that game. The only other sack came from Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey on you know, Tony Poll missed that assignment in
Speaker 1: the backfield. But the offense did exactly enough to not fail.
Speaker 1: My point being, we can't say it was the biggest
Speaker 1: test thus far going in and then they they win
Speaker 1: as a team, and then we say, oh, well, you
Speaker 1: know they did beat the Rams. Okay, well, yeah, said, well,
Speaker 1: I know, going back till these my comments in particular,
Speaker 1: we said that's gonna be the biggest test in terms
Speaker 1: of dominant players individual dominant players, not holistically as a
Speaker 1: holistic defense. But they had one goom at the first level,
Speaker 1: one goon at the second level, and one goon at
Speaker 1: the third level. Right, That's at least what I when
Speaker 1: I was starting about old Donald Wagner in Rams, right,
Speaker 1: and all those and yeah, and all those guys pretty
Speaker 1: much had good games. I'm not gonna I don't think
Speaker 1: we can see here and say think Wagner probably had
Speaker 1: the lesser game. It was he didn't have splash plays, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how. Yeah, he dropped his
Speaker 1: one splash, but he had an opportunity. But I think
Speaker 1: when we talk about it like that, like that's what
Speaker 1: we're talking about it in that regard, when you think
Speaker 1: about the Dallas offense, if you take away Armstrong's uh
Speaker 1: you know, strip sack and d laws you know, fumble,
Speaker 1: fumble recovery for a touchdown, Dallas scored one touchdown, two
Speaker 1: field goals, right Dorant ten points. Yeah, So I'm like,
Speaker 1: this offense, this offense was not successful to that point.
Speaker 1: Let's not fool ourselves to think that they were successful
Speaker 1: when it was not successful. We're saying they didn't fail,
Speaker 1: and that's not going to be a enough That's so
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Like that, like we've been leaning
Speaker 1: on that they're not failing, they're not feeling last the
Speaker 1: week before this past week, two interceptions got called back.
Speaker 1: That was about to be failed. That was gonna be
Speaker 1: a fail, right, Luckily it didn't happen this time. Why
Speaker 1: could they say, oh, no, we saw what the interior
Speaker 1: pressure did the cooper last last week. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands. We're gonna throw the
Speaker 1: ball sixteen times a day and we're gonna run it
Speaker 1: thirty Yeah, I know what they say about look sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I'm the one that's been I've
Speaker 1: kind of graded this offense on a curve with with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush. I've just constantly reminded myself this guy's barely
Speaker 1: played in the NFL. Managed the game and that's one
Speaker 1: thing he did do well. He did not turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, and it's just enough. It's just enough. Now
Speaker 1: I'm I'm anticipating. That's why it's important for Dak to
Speaker 1: come back when Dak is ready, Because when Dak is
Speaker 1: ready and one percent, I do think this is a
Speaker 1: much better offense Week one. Notwithstanding, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get more than three guys the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, only Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup and Noah Brown
Speaker 1: had a catch in this game. No tight ends, no
Speaker 1: running backs. Dalton Schultz banged up clearly in this game.
Speaker 1: He came back, but but that knee is bothering him.
Speaker 1: Um his mobile. I just think they're going to be
Speaker 1: a better offense with Dak Prescott, but he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to get up to speed and I don't think you
Speaker 1: want to rush him back into that situation. So I've
Speaker 1: been grading on a curve, but um, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: they've got to get more production when they play a
Speaker 1: team like the Philadelphia Eagles offensively. Want to answer you,
Speaker 1: and to answer your question, Coyle, the I don't think
Speaker 1: the offense as a whole took a step back in
Speaker 1: this game. Um, I think the passing attack took a
Speaker 1: step back in this game. If you want to talk
Speaker 1: about it, A drop from Lamb, a drop from Gallop
Speaker 1: Gallup didn't make up forward fantastic. Yeah, but that that
Speaker 1: first one from Gallup you could still be going CD
Speaker 1: also dropped. So the passing attack took a step back
Speaker 1: from week four, the rushing attack took a step forward
Speaker 1: from week four. And guess what the scale balanced it,
Speaker 1: sof Out and the Cowboys got to win. We've been
Speaker 1: on this show saying it before, Isaiah, You've been a
Speaker 1: big proponent of it, of run the football, run it consistently,
Speaker 1: stick through it all the way through, no matter what
Speaker 1: the game looks like. Run the football because it sets
Speaker 1: up play action, It opens up your offense, It gives
Speaker 1: you so many more option defense, it helps your defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it certainly did in this one, But why does it
Speaker 1: feel like they are taking that step back offensively, at
Speaker 1: least in a week like this whenever they did run
Speaker 1: the football and they stuck with it and they were
Speaker 1: able to continue that through four quarters. Well, when you're
Speaker 1: watching the film, there's a lot of pass attempts early
Speaker 1: in the game. They threw it around a little bit
Speaker 1: in the first and second quarter, and then they got
Speaker 1: into the third and they said no, no no, no, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: run it, keep away, over and over and over and over.
Speaker 1: It was keepaway, beautiful, that's what it was. It was keaway.
Speaker 1: And that's okay, that's successible ball. When you're playing against
Speaker 1: a team that can't get things going offensively. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that's to compliment you football, right, you control what
Speaker 1: you can control offensively. You run the freaking ball, you
Speaker 1: get an early lead, you get a gift. Okay, you
Speaker 1: get a gift, right, and if yeah, you got yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a few gifts. Absolutely, you got the strips,
Speaker 1: the strip act, and then you got the block block point.
Speaker 1: So at that point in time, you're like, shoot, let's
Speaker 1: not mess this thing up. Let's let's run it. It
Speaker 1: was run the ball, and that's that's what they did.
Speaker 1: They just played keepaway. But that keepaway mentality should be
Speaker 1: the mentality every week for these guys in terms of
Speaker 1: being dedicated to the run thirty times in the game.
Speaker 1: Obviously was good enough yesterday, but that should be the
Speaker 1: case all the time when you have that two headed
Speaker 1: monster back there. Now, obviously they're still figuring out the
Speaker 1: offensive line and all those things blas blah blah blah blahsa,
Speaker 1: but that is a winning strategy for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And I think as you're trying to get these guys
Speaker 1: more confidence up front, I think, as you're trying to
Speaker 1: get Cooper Rush some protection, as you're trying to keep
Speaker 1: the defense nice and fresh with their one, two, three
Speaker 1: defensive lines that they're coming with, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: All those things played compliments to successful ball. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep saying it. I know people call me a hater,
Speaker 1: you call me whatever you want. It's not enough, and
Speaker 1: it's it's really not enough. Teams are still figuring out
Speaker 1: who the heck they are. Teams are still making a
Speaker 1: justice based upon their person nails from this year. You
Speaker 1: talk about really good teams from last year. They seemingly
Speaker 1: suck right now. They're not gonna suck the whole year.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna suck the whole The Cincinnati aren't gonna
Speaker 1: suck the whole year. The Rams are gonna suck the
Speaker 1: whole year. You know, these teams aren't gonna suck the
Speaker 1: whole year. So somebody Dallas has the second easiest schedule
Speaker 1: in the league this year, which is awesome in terms
Speaker 1: of strength of schedule. So you take advantage of that
Speaker 1: and you knock these teams out, but there are going
Speaker 1: to be to Philadelphia Eagles that pop up on your schedule.
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, we're gonna need to score more than
Speaker 1: than one touchdown. There's a couple of teams like that
Speaker 1: on the schedule. Yeah, And I said it like right
Speaker 1: off the top. I mean, they they have gotten some
Speaker 1: matchups on the front line where it's been nice, like
Speaker 1: guys that are offensive lines that are young, or offensive
Speaker 1: lines that are banged up, or offensive lines just aren't
Speaker 1: very good. That's why I think Sunday is a great test.
Speaker 1: But I still think I mean, I think they're for real.
Speaker 1: One thing I'll say about the offense that that does
Speaker 1: impress me. Every time they need something from Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: in this offense, they seem to get it, you know. Rams, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Rams take a ten nine lead, they answer Rushed with
Speaker 1: the completion and the Pollard's touchdown. My favorite drive, to
Speaker 1: Isaiah's point, it was a boring drive. Fourth quarter, five
Speaker 1: minutes to go, nine plays, thirty five yards, run, run, run, run, run,
Speaker 1: kick the field goal I don't care about. There was
Speaker 1: a debate on Twitter in the press box about that
Speaker 1: go up twenty two ten, give me the point to
Speaker 1: go up twelve points with five minutes left. Choke this
Speaker 1: game away, and that's what they did well, and they
Speaker 1: forced that that field goal. Initially it's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't put you up by more than two scores.
Speaker 1: But if you don't kick the field goal, a touchdown
Speaker 1: and a field goal wins it, whereas if you kick
Speaker 1: the field goal, you need two touchdowns to win it. Right,
Speaker 1: take the Mayweather approach, slow, methodical, boring, watch, but it's effective.
Speaker 1: Welcome down. Isaiah is right, and we talked about this
Speaker 1: after I think the Washington game. You're looking at it
Speaker 1: from a player's perspective. Who's going in the film room today,
Speaker 1: and saying this is not going to cut it in
Speaker 1: January because we expect to be there and we've got
Speaker 1: to be better than that. I totally get that. I
Speaker 1: just think for this particular what they're dealing with right now, offensively,
Speaker 1: I take it, take it, and I think the best
Speaker 1: is yet to come with the forty million dollars man
Speaker 1: coming back. If he's right, and and that's why I
Speaker 1: think if you're a fan, you should be excited. Notwithstanding
Speaker 1: it has to improve and exactly and Isaiah is correct,
Speaker 1: And I'll just expand on on Okay, we don't have
Speaker 1: to always just say he's correct. We can, but it
Speaker 1: is keeping us grounded here. I mean it's right because
Speaker 1: he's correct in that the teams you're seeing now, as
Speaker 1: far as the struggles with Cincinnati and Los Angeles, you're
Speaker 1: not going pretty probably likely not going to see them
Speaker 1: later in the season. They'll get it figured out. Um. Contrarily,
Speaker 1: the Eagles aren't going to be undefeated going into the
Speaker 1: back end of the season. They're gonna lose several games,
Speaker 1: right and it could start us right Aska Giants, right. Um.
Speaker 1: But what I would say is the same applies. The
Speaker 1: same that applies for those other teams. Applies to the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as well. We're talking about a team that it
Speaker 1: does have a backup quarterback. They just lost Jason Peters
Speaker 1: really before they could even you know, unleash him. Tylas
Speaker 1: Smith is a rookie, he's playing very well, has some
Speaker 1: growing pains against Aaron Donald. Hell, they're you know, multi
Speaker 1: time Pro bowlers that have growing pains to that point,
Speaker 1: real quickly, look at the first past play of the
Speaker 1: entire game. That's all I'm gonna say. Just look at
Speaker 1: the first pass ten for Cooper Rush and watch Jack
Speaker 1: Martin go up against Aaron Donald, and that'll change your
Speaker 1: mind on how Tyler Smith. And there you go. My
Speaker 1: point being the Cowboys aren't whole. They're getting more so
Speaker 1: on defense, and the defense is still dominant even though
Speaker 1: they're not completely hold, but they're getting there. The offense
Speaker 1: is wildly not whole, especially when you're talking about the
Speaker 1: gaping position of QB one that's not there yet. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are figuring things out as well. They're figuring
Speaker 1: out their identity as well, and they won't truly know
Speaker 1: their identity until that comes back and they get that rolling.
Speaker 1: But I do find an interest in that from a
Speaker 1: science standpoint. Cowboys finished yesterday's game with exactly thirty carries
Speaker 1: between Pollard and Zeke, not two weeks ago. McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: he wants to see thirty carries. Yeah, he's thirty touches.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. He's in killing Zere
Speaker 1: and killing his listening. Yeah. Yes, Uh, let's take a
Speaker 1: break when we come back. It should Cooper Rush be
Speaker 1: the starter for the rest of the seat. Not just kidding.
Speaker 1: That's not what we're talking about next. I'm messing. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about the offensive line moving forward. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to get out answers. Not a second. That's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about. Offensive line, Tyler Smith. But
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Speaker 1: by Black Rifle Coffee Company Connor McGovern yesterday and going
Speaker 1: back to the point that I was making with with
Speaker 1: Aaron Donalds, Aaron Donald's going to get his film certainly
Speaker 1: did yesterday two sacks. Uh, technically a force fumble, but
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush landed on it immediately. Nate and knew and
Speaker 1: everybody didn't hear this. Nate Newton yesterday said he is
Speaker 1: the greatest defensive lineman to ever played a game. And
Speaker 1: he said he would say it on air two. So
Speaker 1: it's on the record for for Date Newton, best defensive
Speaker 1: lineman he's ever. That's a fun conversation. He's in the conversation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, he's in the conversation. But their names that's
Speaker 1: pop that pop up in my head, be a Cowboys
Speaker 1: and not that you could make a conversation and that
Speaker 1: that's why it's so impactful coming from Nate because he's
Speaker 1: played against some of the greatest dudes ever. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean LT comes to mind, but LT, did you count
Speaker 1: him as just a linebacker? He's not necessarily in that conversation.
Speaker 1: I think pass rusher, you know, But we brought up
Speaker 1: Randy White. He'sai. Yeah, oh nice. So anyway, I don't
Speaker 1: want to dern no, that's but yeah, Randy White. He
Speaker 1: always talks about um, Reggie White, Reggie White. And uh no.
Speaker 1: He did say another name yesterday, Randall. Yes, yeah, Randall.
Speaker 1: Another another Eagles rusher that I'm blanking on. He would
Speaker 1: just he said there was another gentleman that I guess
Speaker 1: passed away or something like that. He said, had he
Speaker 1: kept playing, he would have been Keith. Keith Russell maybe
Speaker 1: is that his name. I can't remember. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say it'll be It'd be a great conversation to have,
Speaker 1: I tell you that much. But to that point, Recover
Speaker 1: did a heck of a job. He really did. And
Speaker 1: the first play, the first passing play of the ball game,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin went one on one Mono imano against Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald and he got blown up walked backwards. Now, Martin
Speaker 1: kept his footing like a seven time pro bowler would,
Speaker 1: but he was in the lap of Cooper Rush by
Speaker 1: the time that throw was made, and it was thrown
Speaker 1: into the dirt and it was an incomplete pass. Then
Speaker 1: you had a couple of separate plays throughout that drive
Speaker 1: where Donald was head up on Martin, head up on Martin,
Speaker 1: and then he scoots over and he goes to Tyler Smith. Oh,
Speaker 1: and he had his targets set on the rookie. The
Speaker 1: first play sack boom. He ate absolutely give me that.
Speaker 1: So Tyler Smith had his h took his lumps, but
Speaker 1: he responded. Connor McGovern didn't even have a lump. He
Speaker 1: came in there and he bawled out give him the credit.
Speaker 1: Where credit is, dude. I thought he was fantastic. He
Speaker 1: was by the way, I was thinking of Jerome Brown.
Speaker 1: He's a great player. Played against Nay long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he he did a great job. And I in the
Speaker 1: pregame show, I was talking to you guys about Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald and I didn't mention he's an edge rusher too.
Speaker 1: He can just play him anywhere. And they they found
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith and went at him a little bit with
Speaker 1: ninety nine. But yeah, Connor McGovern stronger player than he
Speaker 1: was when he came in the league. I mean, I think,
Speaker 1: and he had a little bit of help, but there
Speaker 1: were times one on one where he was holding his
Speaker 1: own in there. And that's a step forward for this
Speaker 1: offense because I don't know how long Jason Peters is
Speaker 1: going to be out. We haven't really got an update
Speaker 1: on that, but it could be more than one game,
Speaker 1: depending on the severity of that rib injury he's got. So,
Speaker 1: I mean it was huge for mcgovernor. I mean, you
Speaker 1: your two games back from a high ankle sprain didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily look great in your week, your last game back,
Speaker 1: um last week against the Commanders and your return, and
Speaker 1: now you're asked going against Aaron Donald and you're not
Speaker 1: going to have the security blanket of Jason Peters, which
Speaker 1: was you know, one of the matchups who were interested
Speaker 1: in seeing before the Peters news came out and said, hey, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see Peters versus Donald, center or ceter and Peters
Speaker 1: gets hurt chest injury last week, might miss multiple games.
Speaker 1: We should know more here this week, if not today.
Speaker 1: Um So, Connor McGovern it's all on you going against
Speaker 1: the all world talent, arguably the best NFL defender of
Speaker 1: all time. What do you do? You hold your own
Speaker 1: You hold your owne. Yeah, So fantastic job by Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern fantastic, fantastic, fantastic And tyler yaddish and I said
Speaker 1: this I said this to Nick last night as well
Speaker 1: as we were boarding to head out from from La
Speaker 1: Tyler Biaddish had a really good game as well. If
Speaker 1: you go back and you look at the game, you
Speaker 1: look at the film that he was the one that
Speaker 1: really sprung Tony Pollard on that play, Tyler Beedish, he
Speaker 1: went sealed one guy to his left and then as
Speaker 1: soon as he felt Pollard get right right past him,
Speaker 1: he went and sealed the second guy that created a
Speaker 1: huge lane for Pollard and then the rest was just
Speaker 1: on Tony to get it done. And Tony got it done.
Speaker 1: So kudos to not only McGovern but let's let's give
Speaker 1: roses to Tyler Beiedish as well. He had a solid game.
Speaker 1: If not a good game, I'm not as quick to
Speaker 1: go to Tyler Beiodish. There were a couple of times
Speaker 1: in the wrong spot. Yeah, not so fast, my friend.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I I thought Conor mccovern consistently won his
Speaker 1: battles either either that or as a stalemate, and that's
Speaker 1: a win for me. And honestly, and if you're talking
Speaker 1: about the offensive line, Beodest didn't consistently win his battles.
Speaker 1: He won one, then he lost one, then he lost one,
Speaker 1: and then he won one, and he goes back and
Speaker 1: forth and it's just not consistent. I'm not sold on
Speaker 1: Tyler Beyodish long term. I'm gonna put that out there.
Speaker 1: What I lost not wrong. All I'm saying, though, is
Speaker 1: that Pollard touchdown run doesn't happen. If doesn't, it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen either. McGovern seals the edge and then you get
Speaker 1: up to the second well, and then Tony Pollard also
Speaker 1: breaks acceptable. It was accept it was acceptable. Fair. Now
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, though specifically, continues to make these big time runs.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I know there was a discrepancy in
Speaker 1: terms of the carries, and I'm not actually calling for
Speaker 1: equal carries because I think it's one without the other
Speaker 1: sort of deal. I mean, they both kind of marriage
Speaker 1: each other. But pat, when you look at Tony Pollard,
Speaker 1: his elusiveness and his explosiveness is a weapon, and you've
Speaker 1: seen that throughout the season. How does that continue to
Speaker 1: grow without necessarily putting Ezekiel Elliott in a box because
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to in order to have
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard feature. Well. Listen, first, kudos to Pollot for
Speaker 1: having a flu game his flu game yesterday and it
Speaker 1: was funny. I asked him about it in the locker room.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, was this your flu game? Ear to
Speaker 1: ear grint, he was like somewhat somewhat um For those
Speaker 1: that may not have known, he battled illness. He misspractice
Speaker 1: on Friday, and he said that robbed him of a
Speaker 1: little bit of his energy levels. He got fatigued a
Speaker 1: lot quicker. But to be able to battle back and
Speaker 1: still just deliver the explosive play that the Cowboys require
Speaker 1: and expect of him on the you know, an enemy
Speaker 1: territory was fantastic. Now, obviously he struggled against the commanders.
Speaker 1: That's not what you want to see from Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: But this version of Tony Pollard is the one that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have become accustomed to. This is the one
Speaker 1: that compliments Ezekiel Elliott and fantastic fashion. This is the
Speaker 1: one that's the lightning to Ezekiel Elliott's thunder. So to
Speaker 1: your point, Kyle, I don't think it's about, oh, well,
Speaker 1: let's give Pollard proportionately, you know, more touches in comparison
Speaker 1: to Ezekiel Elliott. It's hey, just giving more touches and
Speaker 1: kind of take what the defense is given you. We
Speaker 1: saw not two weeks ago Pollard have a hundred yard
Speaker 1: game and Ezekiel Elliott was still very much involved in
Speaker 1: that game, but it was Pollard's day. There's going to
Speaker 1: be coming up here soon. There's gonna be a day
Speaker 1: where it's Ezekiel Elliot's day. It might be Philadelphia, because
Speaker 1: guess who has fantastic games in Philadelphia, Ezekiel Elliott. So
Speaker 1: to me, as long as it's constantly working in tandem,
Speaker 1: I don't really care whose day it is because ultimately
Speaker 1: the dove is all that matters. Does do people feel
Speaker 1: as if Zeke did not have a good day? Is
Speaker 1: that the So I think there shouts the slash players, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's that if it's not flashing, people are
Speaker 1: looking at this is the wrong way. Yeah. The reason why,
Speaker 1: the fact is because Freaky Zeki is the battering ram.
Speaker 1: This is a swat team. He's the first dude up
Speaker 1: to the door. Boom boom boom, right, bust the door down,
Speaker 1: and then he gets out the way, and then what
Speaker 1: then your boys go in there? Right? They got the
Speaker 1: shields and you can't get in the door unless you
Speaker 1: got the batter and stress right there with the Legos analogy,
Speaker 1: you just right, you're not sitting the second wave in
Speaker 1: there first. You need the first wave to go in there,
Speaker 1: you know. And and Nate said it again yesterday. You
Speaker 1: know he's a meat tender riser. That's what his game
Speaker 1: has transformed into. You can't expect players to keep their
Speaker 1: same I mean, Zeke has it was never just the
Speaker 1: most explosive guy in his career. I mean, he had
Speaker 1: explosive plays, but you can't do you were he was
Speaker 1: never gonna run away from people. Sixteen he did, And
Speaker 1: that's why people keep going back to sixteen hurbling guys
Speaker 1: and how was he? You know what I'm saying something
Speaker 1: like your game, your game adjust, right, Yeah, you've seen
Speaker 1: how many players come through here, and your game has
Speaker 1: to adjust. There's things that players do earlier in their
Speaker 1: career is that they can't continue. They can't withstand that
Speaker 1: they can't continue keep putting that out. Your body starts
Speaker 1: getting older, you start taking on more more hits, you
Speaker 1: start wearing down, and guess what, you don't have the
Speaker 1: juice that you want to have. You don't have the
Speaker 1: strength that you want to have. So guess what, So
Speaker 1: you start making other aspects of your game that much
Speaker 1: more heightened. You think about ray Lewis. Ray Lewis ran
Speaker 1: it came in the league running around, busting everybody in
Speaker 1: their head. Ed Reid came in there, ripping and a running,
Speaker 1: coming to the line of scrimmage, running out of it anything.
Speaker 1: Then guess what, film study that's my advantage. Now I
Speaker 1: lost the step. So now I'm gonna elevate my mind
Speaker 1: more so I don't have to play as fast, right,
Speaker 1: I could make better, more strategic moves. That's where Zeke's
Speaker 1: adding in his career right now. You can't have those
Speaker 1: same expectations thinking that Zeke's gonna do Pollard things. They're
Speaker 1: a great tandem. Understand what they how they work together
Speaker 1: and appreciate and some and Zeke average three point five
Speaker 1: yards of carey. I want to go back and see
Speaker 1: some of that is defined short yardage situations too, that
Speaker 1: he's picking up. It's the contract. People mad about the
Speaker 1: contract and all that. They don't look at the little
Speaker 1: things he does. And Michael Gelkin from The Morning News
Speaker 1: longest plays so far from the Cowboys this year are
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard forty five yard catch, forty six yard run,
Speaker 1: fifty seven yard run. He's the home run threat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zeke does. And people, if you don't like Zeke, you
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about the little stuff. He does
Speaker 1: some of the little things too. If you want to
Speaker 1: quibble with Tony Pollard and maybe why he doesn't get
Speaker 1: on the field as much as maybe you want him to,
Speaker 1: look at the sack by Jalen Rams where he crushed
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush and there was looked like a miscommunication where
Speaker 1: Tony blocked inside didn't see him coming off the edge.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. That's why Zeke is a third
Speaker 1: down back still in this league, even though if you
Speaker 1: don't like the lack of the explosive place compared to Tep.
Speaker 1: It's a combination. It's a combination of two things. A
Speaker 1: Number one, I think you're hard pressed to find any
Speaker 1: player in nfil history, or more than five I'd say
Speaker 1: that have throughout the the totality of their career never
Speaker 1: had to adjust because film didn't matter. Troy Polamal was
Speaker 1: one guy. He got older, he was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't care what film your story, you just can't stop me.
Speaker 1: But it's also the fact that because Pollard is here.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys aren't asking Ezekiel Elliott to be that that
Speaker 1: Homer and three. So if they get it from Zeke,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, great, fantastic, this is wonderful. But they're like,
Speaker 1: we have the other guy who's tasked with doing that.
Speaker 1: So left hand plus right hand equals a full compliment.
Speaker 1: Why is? But I guess it goes back to your
Speaker 1: your statement about the contract, like do people not understand
Speaker 1: what he does in the passing? They don't answer question,
Speaker 1: I don't care question for a whole game and see
Speaker 1: how well you're passing down. Totally agree they don't. But
Speaker 1: it's not it's not feed me twenty sixteen Zeke hurdling
Speaker 1: guys and all that. That's jumping out of the Salvation
Speaker 1: army kettle. Like that's that's what people compare it all to.
Speaker 1: He is still a valuable and Carlo and you know,
Speaker 1: kudos to Ezekiel Elliott and and his his level of
Speaker 1: football maturity and understanding that he's a third down back,
Speaker 1: a three down back, and he can be a three
Speaker 1: down back. But he's no longer the Bill cow in
Speaker 1: the system that also features Tony Poller. He has absolutely
Speaker 1: embraced the tandem, and yet you have some fans that
Speaker 1: are simply like, oh, well, we need to get him
Speaker 1: out of here and poulit needs to be the feature back.
Speaker 1: For as much as Polar delivers, you know, the home
Speaker 1: run ball, et cetera, et cetera, the dirty work that
Speaker 1: Zeke does. If you, I promise you you really want
Speaker 1: to ask Polar to do the dirty work. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: three downs every single week, every single year, You're going
Speaker 1: to be disappointed. But if you keep this tandem, then
Speaker 1: you're you're going to be pleased. Zeke is still a
Speaker 1: guy who can turn a one yard run into three.
Speaker 1: Like there's still no wasted motion for him. He does
Speaker 1: little things on tape that you're like, damn, he's moving
Speaker 1: the pile. He's still he's still a beast in there.
Speaker 1: Bottom line, we've got two playoffs right now, right for
Speaker 1: baseball baseball playoffs. Tony Potter is a designated hitter. Okay,
Speaker 1: I asked you to do one thing. One thing. I
Speaker 1: ask you to do one job. Nobody has a problem
Speaker 1: designated hitters until they do what Until they don't hit?
Speaker 1: My problem? So Tony Potter comes to the game, you're
Speaker 1: the expectation is we need a splash play out of you.
Speaker 1: That's it here here, it is his only job. Here's
Speaker 1: my overarching problem with fans that want one or the other.
Speaker 1: Learn how to enjoy two good things at the same time.
Speaker 1: You don't have to choose. So, for example, jay Ron
Speaker 1: crist was coming back, the conversation was, oh, with curses
Speaker 1: coming back, what I'm gonna do with Dono Ei Ei.
Speaker 1: It's always this or that, but it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be at certain positions one team until you actually have
Speaker 1: the certain Tony Pollard is really good at what Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard does. Ezekiel Elliott is really good at what Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott does. Put those two together and they formed like Voltron.
Speaker 1: Where do you fall on this? You've been awfully quiet,
Speaker 1: I've honestly, that was the best segment I think I've
Speaker 1: ever had as a host because I just kind of
Speaker 1: lofted it up and you guys took it and rant
Speaker 1: with it. I didn't need to say anything, Honestly, I
Speaker 1: turned into a fan there. I love listening to that
Speaker 1: back and forth because it is a debate and I
Speaker 1: think it kind of falls in the middle of where
Speaker 1: you guys are saying it has to be a tandem
Speaker 1: back and forth. You can certainly have more of one
Speaker 1: or more of the other, but it's better when it
Speaker 1: works like it did yesterday. I think if you could
Speaker 1: draw it up and you could ask everybody on the
Speaker 1: other side of the building right now what their ideal
Speaker 1: running game would look like, it would be Week five
Speaker 1: of the NFL season against the La Rams. That was
Speaker 1: their ideal running game, and they got to win because
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Speaker 1: more on Talking Cowboys. Chris Beam, Rob Phillips, Isaiah Standback,
Speaker 1: Patrick Nose walk Around, Kyle Yelmens. Is this gonna be
Speaker 1: a train wreck? Isaiah? Is this gonna be a trainwreck?
Speaker 1: I can already see the look on your face from
Speaker 1: how we're gonna end up making this happen. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's just whatever, let's go fastest, whatever, helmet stickers.
Speaker 1: We do it. Every time the Cowboys get a win,
Speaker 1: we get this helmet it's a full sized Dallas Cowboys helmet,
Speaker 1: and we decorate it with all these smelly stickers to
Speaker 1: scratch and sniff. It's like a gold star, but a
Speaker 1: helmet sticker. And then it's the Ohio State. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's talking cowboys version. And of course with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Who wants to start? You haven't already started last week?
Speaker 1: Did you? Did you start last I did not start
Speaker 1: last week? Isaiah started this week? About that? There, Isaia,
Speaker 1: I'm all right right, um, get us de realed early,
Speaker 1: give us time to recover. I'm gonna go right here. Okay,
Speaker 1: you guys see it his a peach. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can see it on here, you really can't
Speaker 1: sell anyways, I'm going with the peach. Um that kind
Speaker 1: of looks like some cheeks. Uh. Connor McGovern kept Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush from being on his heiny handled Aaron Donald and
Speaker 1: party very hand e leach. I'm gonna give you the
Speaker 1: peachie cheekie for keeping him off his cheekies. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we gladly talked that through break because Rob
Speaker 1: goes o, who you got, Kyle conn McGovern. Oh, and
Speaker 1: then Isaiah just took him telling him, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: his defense was not cheeks on Sunday, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: don'nut just because I don't know. I'm hungry. I didn't
Speaker 1: eat on the plane last night yesterday. Dorian's armstrong. I
Speaker 1: can't ask for more. No c rode about him last night.
Speaker 1: Defensive lineman who is not only a starter on this defense,
Speaker 1: but is a key special teams guy that is rare
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Like I said, he spotted him ten points,
Speaker 1: signed him to what a two year, fourteen million dollars
Speaker 1: deal in the off season, and uh, that looks like
Speaker 1: one of the best moves that they've made in a while.
Speaker 1: All Right for me, I'm going with the mango, and
Speaker 1: this is gonna be real simple for me. It's going
Speaker 1: to Michael Parsons. Michael Parsons gets the mango because he
Speaker 1: only has two gears. Stuff and go, so man go
Speaker 1: I like it, Man, go the Kyle. You're just gonna
Speaker 1: just take us into the ditch here with something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wrap up. I wanted to grab this plumb right here,
Speaker 1: but it's not a sticker. I fell for it again.
Speaker 1: We felt we did this a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: where it was like, it's not actually a stick. Where's
Speaker 1: this going? Um, I don't know. I'm gonna grab this line.
Speaker 1: This is a line. Why are you laughing? Just waiting
Speaker 1: for something to happen here. I'm gonna give it to
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard because he squeezed out a fantastic run there
Speaker 1: and got that fifty seven yarder, the touchdown. Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: in the middle of this's gonna get the line. Got
Speaker 1: it done. Cowboys, get it done. Twenty two to ten.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun here on Talking. Let's
Speaker 1: just say that thank you for not policy. Everybody at home,
Speaker 1: it's probably like, why are these idiots always laughing whenever
Speaker 1: the segment comes up and trying to throw off man
Speaker 1: because of one day and dirty mind. And we've gotten
Speaker 1: to this point where it's irreversible, but we do have
Speaker 1: our helmet stickers. The Cowboys get the win. They are
Speaker 1: now four and one, and my goodness, it sets up
Speaker 1: a really fun matchup this week with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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